UK MPs criticise Jeremy Corbyn over shoot-to-kill

Sky News has removed an article from its website which referred to Jeremy Corbyn as “Jihadi Jez” after it received a petition signed by more than 50,000 people.

The Labour leader, then an advocate of unilateral disarmament, replied: “This is a classical choice between exterminating everything you stand for and the flower of your youth, or using all the resources you have to make any occupation totally untenable”.

The Labour leader enraged his MPs this week by announcing they will not be allowed a free vote if David Cameron calls a Commons vote in the coming weeks.

“And we must ensure that terrorist attacks are not used to undermine the very freedoms and legal protections we are determined to defend”, he said.

With Labour disastrously split, Tory Ministers have already begun quietly sounding out backbenchers about the need to extend attacks on IS targets from Iraq into Syria.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday cancelled a speech in the wake of the Paris attacks, in which he would have suggested that British bombing operations against Islamic State (IS) had contributed to an increased threat to national security. All I can say is what is the position in the party, the long-standing position in the UK. “I think there’s a majority there, there’s a clear majority”.

Mr David noted the article had been removed but said: “Nevertheless, I think people will advise him to have no further participation in such an organisation”.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said when police officers intervened in life-threatening situations, there was a policy to stop the suspect and while that “might mean killing them”, the force did not have a “shoot-to-kill” policy. I don’t think in the public there’s a sweeping appetite for what’s being proposed.

In his report to the NEC, Corbyn said “as we have seen in the recent past, there are clear dangers to us all in any kind of shoot-to-kill policy”.

Britain’s former head of counter-terrorism said the cuts could cost lives. “If they do participate like us, of course we will appreciate (it) because we have always fought side by side but it is their decision”.

Ministers will set out the plans to bomb Isis in Syria by the end of the month, meaning MPs could authorise air strikes before Christmas. The more central the issues of foreign and defence policy become to British politics, the greater the potential for division.

“Airstrikes will not be decisive unless in support of credible non-Islamist ground forces of this type, and co-operation with the Russians will also be required”.